Android users can now stream directly to Sonos from Google Play Music

Big news from Sonos and Google this morning, with the announcement that you can now stream Google Play Music on your Sonos system. Better yet, you don't even have to use the Sonos app to do it – though you absolutely can – since the functionality is being added right into the Google Play Music app for Android.

In Google Play Music, we’ve found a great partner to bring this vision to life for the first time on a global scale. Together, we’ve created a music experience that shows how media, devices, and sound can seamlessly work together in the home.

Tapping the Chromecast icon within the Play Music app should now bring up an option to stream to your various Sonos speakers as well as to any Chromecasts you have in your home. So if you live in Google Play Music, it's a completely seamless experience.

Sweet!! I was using an app called Cast to UPnP/DNLA that does this flawlessly even letting me control my sonos from within Music app. I still use it to cast to my xbox while playing games. Cant wait to get home and try this out!

I had the same issue this morning. I uninstalled the updates to Google Play Music. It reinstalled the latest version automatically. When it did I saw my zones (rooms) with the Chromecast icon in Play Music.

Now this has me wondering if soon we will see other Chromecastable apps able to use the Sonos speakers for audio. I was a little bnummed to see that YouTube wasn't listed as sometimes I listen to music off there for live events/recordings.

Yay! I had just ditched Google Music last month, in favor of Rdio, because I was tired of waiting around for Sonos support. Google let me re-up at my old $8/month subscriber rate, so as of today, Rdio is history.

I'm lost as to why I would need a Sonos now... I've looked at them in the past, but the cost kept me at bay. Now I just plug in my Chromecast into my A/V system and all is good. This prevents me from having to purchase a second set of speakers (Sonos) that I didn't need, and I get the streaming I wanted to boot.

I thought the Chromecast would be the death of Sonos... and didn't think I'd see a partnership made between the two companies.

Such welcome news. I hardly use Google Music for lack of a good speaker to play it on, and we have this underused Sonos 3 as well. Now we're talking! Works fine from both Sonos and Google Play Music apps.

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